Well, the Station Fire continues to burn, but the LA Times reports that 144,000 acres of flames is 38% contained. This is huge. Mount Wilson is amazingly still hanging on, thanks to the work of those firefighters:
“We believe the results will be positive in the Mt. Wilson area,” said Incident Commander Mike Dietrich. -LA [...]
By Dan B.
Music by Brian Eno
Also, here’s another crazy view (in time-lapse) from the Mt. Wilson tower cam.
.
As of now, Mt. Wilson is still hanging on…amazingly. Thank yous to the local firefighters and the Canadians who let us borrow some DC-10s that can drop 12,000 gallons of flame-killers in 8 seconds. The most recent news from the LA Times doesn’t look very hopeful, however.
The LA Times aside, I’ve been pretty disappointed in [...]
By Eric Spiegalman
(found via: Adrienne on Twitter)
This time lapse from day to night is pretty intense with the LA skyline. It just needs some better music.
The Station Fire in the mountains of Pasadena is burning out of control and growing rapidly. It has just been reported that two firefighters lost their lives in a vehicle accident near Mt. Gleason in the midst of being heroes. Awful.
The good news is that the Santa Ana winds are non-existent. The bad news is [...]
